+ WP(C) 1356/2010
UNION OF INDIA GENERAL SECY IRCA & ORS. ....Petitioners Represented by: Mr.V.S.R.Krishna, Advocate with
Mr.Abhishek Yadav, Advocate
versus
ASHOK KUMAR RAI .....Respondent Represented by: Ms.Jyoti Singh, Sr.Advocate instructed by Ms.N.S.Bajwa,
Advocate for R-1
Mr.Sanjay K.Pathak, Advocate for
R-2
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PRADEEP NANDRAJOG
HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE V.KAMESWAR RAO
PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J.
1. In the year 1879 that is 25 years after the first rail had been laid in India there was a network of 89 separate, Government and private, railway systems covering a total mileage of 8475. But on account of lack of a common set of rules and regulations the user of railway transport was inconvenienced. The main drawback was the unwillingness of individual railway systems to permit its wagons to move over the other railways. This resulted in an unsatisfactory state of affairs, and with a view to overcoming the difficulties, the Director-General of Railways, the then WP(C) 1356/2010 Page 1 of 12 highest Government official incharge of Railways, convened a Conference of all R